Boss Audio Systems BR-900CD - Manual (Page 140)

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Creating Audio CD
Precautions
In addition to CD-R discs, you can also use CD-RW discs
when making audio CDs. However, it may not be possible
for audio CDs created using CD-RW discs to be played on
standard CD players.
Furthermore, even when CD-R discs are used for this
purpose, playback will not be possible on CD players that do
not support this type of media. You should, therefore, confirm
that the CD player to be used is compatible with CD-R discs.
Note that the BR-900CD’s CD-R/RW drive can play commercially
produced audio CDs, CD-R discs, and CD-RW discs.
When you use the CD-R/RW drive, you must use only the
supplied AC adaptor. The CD-R/RW drive cannot be used
while running on battery power.
Setting the Time Between
Songs (Pre-Gap)
Often when you are playing audio CDs on standard CD
players, you will see a countdown in the form of “-3, -2, -1”
on the player’s display before songs start. This duration is
referred to as a Pre-Gap, and it can be freely set during the
CD creation process to allow song lengths to be adjusted
without having to record silence at the end of each.
1. Press [CD-R/RW].
The CD menu screen will appear.
fig.05_CDmenu
2. Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to
“AUDIO,” and press [ENTER].
The Audio CD menu screen will appear.
fig.05_CDaudio
3. Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to “GAP,”
and press [ENTER].
The pre-gap setting screen will appear.
fig.40-03d
4. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to specify a gap time
between songs in seconds.
5. Press [EXIT].
If silence is included at the end of your finished song, the
pre-gap time will be added to the length of this section, and
as a result, the gap between songs will be longer than
expected when the CD is played back on a CD player. For
details regarding the deletion of silence from the end of
songs, refer to “Erasing Data (Track Erase)” (p. 73).
Writing Songs to Discs
Have on hand the disc you want to burn as an audio CD.
You can write the data to any of the following discs.
• CD-R or CD-RW disc with no data written to it (blank disc)
• Discs that have song data that was written to them using
the BR-900CD, but which still have space available for
further recording and have not yet been finalized
1. Load the song that you want to write.
2. Insert an unrecorded CD-R or CD-RW disc into the CD-
R/RW drive.
3. Press [CD-R/RW].
The CD menu screen will appear.
fig.05_CDmenu
Methods for creating audio CDs
With the BR-900CD, only the currently loaded song is
written to the audio CD. If you want to include other
songs on your CD, they will each have to be loaded and
written in sequence. When you use this method,
individual songs can be added to a disc one at a time
until it is full. This method is called “Track At Once.”